Attire

Men's Attire


Mark will be wearing a black tuxedo with an ivory shirt and a champagne vest with a long tie. The groomsmen, ushers, and ring-bearers are going to be wearing the same tuxedo with ivory shirts and purple vests and long ties. 

Bridesmaids

My bridesmaids picked out their own dresses and I love the way that they look together! They will all be the dark purple (which is called Lapis at David's Bridal). Picking them out went really smoothly and didn't take long at all surprisingly :)
Update: we got the dresses in today :) Here are my sisters modeling their dresses (and the others as well)! The lighting/photography is really poor so you can't really tell but they are a really pretty dark purple! I LOVE the way they look together!
We went to DSW after dress shopping and everyone picked out black strappy shoes. Lisa and Mary Jo picked the first shoe, Sammi picked the second shoe, and Shanna and Meg picked the third shoe. I think that they will all look fantastic :) I have such an adorable wedding party!
I got my bridesmaids their jewelry from my Premier Designs Jewelry party! Since all of their dresses are a little different, I didn't get them all the exact same thing. I got Sammi and Lisa a bracelet and earrings, I got Meg and Mary Jo a necklace and earrings, and I got Shanna a bracelet, necklace, and earrings (maid-of-honor). 
My junior BM (and her mom) will also pick out her own dress, but I really like this one!
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Flower Girls

We finally picked out our flower girl's dresses! They are from Macy's and we got them over half off! I think they are adorable :) Here is a picture of one of the flower girls, Jenny, trying it on!
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Ok...now for my dress...so Mark...STOP LOOKING :)
















































































































My Dress :)

I purchased my dress at David's Bridal my very first day of wedding dress shopping. I went with my mom, my MOH, and one of my BMs (my youngest sister). I knew that I did not want a strapless dress, so that narrowed the search quite a bit. We started shopping at a smaller shop that my mom had previously worked for, but they did not have any dresses with straps on them! So we headed over to David's Bridal and they squeezed us in. I ended up falling in love with the very first dress that I tried on there. I tried on tons more dresses but kept comparing them to the first dress, my dress. My dress is an Oleg Cassini dress, model CT318. Here are some pictures of the model in the dress...
And here are some pictures of me in my dress :)
And here are some pictures of me in my dress with my veil and my headband :)

My Jewelery

I got my jewelry at my  Premier Designs Jewelry party. I picked out a bracelet and earrings :) 

My Shoes

My sister Meg and I picked out my shoes at DSW while we were shopping for shoes for her winter formal dance. She ended up wearing my shoes to her dance and said that they were pretty comfortable. Hopefully she broke them in a little bit for me :)  I can't find a picture of them online right now, so I will take a picture of them soon!

Hair/Make-up Trial Run

Here is how my hair/make-up trial run turned out :) We agreed that we were going to add a little bit more volume on the crown of my head, give it a little more poof! But other than that, I love the way it all looks :)